starting signal

1. 1.

   a signal to begin (as in a race)

   “the starting signal was a green light”

   “the runners awaited the start”

   Synonymsstart

   Broadersignal

Questions about starting signal

What does starting signal mean?

starting signal means "a signal to begin (as in a race)".

What is another word for starting signal?

Close synonyms include start. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is starting signal a common word?

starting signal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.